Category: Marketing

This past weekend, April 26th and 27th, I attended and spoke at the annual NY Travel Festival. The weekend was a productive and interesting look at the state of the Travel, Adventure, and Travel Media industry, and featured informative sessions from industry leaders including the Travel 2.0 group, G Adventures, Matador Network, and AFAR Media, …

Last austral summer, while living at the South Pole Station, Antarctica I represented SF clothing company Betabrand as their official Antarctic Explorer. I had a great time tromping around in the snow in Betabrand’s Disco Pants, USA Pants, and Smoking Jacket. Thanks for the gear, Betabrand! Here’s a quick video of my adventure: …

Continuing on Amazon’s huge week, they’re now introducing to the public their new “Product Ads”. The new ad units are meant to be sprinkled all over the Amazon site, and connect shoppers with offerings at third party shops. An interesting concept supporting the further expansion of Amazon’s growing ad empire. More on Product Ads (PDF). …

Cool making of video, and super cool tech – Tech inventors Breakfast have created this Reactive Super-Speed Electromagnet Dot Display for the launch of TNT’s show “Perception”. Check out the making of video, installation demo, and press release. I love that this display is an actual physical, moving array of dots – each dot flips …

Jesse Genet of Lumi is offering a new product that lets users print their pictures on fabric using the company’s Lumityper app, and printing with their Inkodye system. Very cool application of tech+crafts. Found via Alan and DesignTaxi. Support Jesse on Kickstarter. About the process: Taking photography out of the darkroom, Jesse Genet of Lumi …

Ximena of Sonar recently posted a question on the Sonar facebook page asking for feedback on whether Sonar users want to know about their friends nearby. My thoughts: Yes, I definietly want to know which of my friends are nearby – but I already know that from other more established apps, namely Foursquare and Facebook. …

A few brief notes from tonight’s Mobile Monday talk, at the New York Times Center. Best practices in mobile media consumption Asish Patel, Head of Social Media at VICE Media Favorite app is Twitter. With native applications, the key factor is providing a utility that can’t be found elsewhere, such as on the mobile Web. …